Compagnie Financiere du Pacifique v Peruvian Guano Company

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1883
Year1883
CourtCourt of Appeal
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  • Victoria Hall Management Ltd v Cox
    • Ireland
    • High Court
    • 11 September 2019
    ...Project are clearly relevant in the sense that that term is used in Compagnie Financiere et Commerciale du Pacifique v. Peruvian Guano (1882) 11 Q.B.D. 55 (“ Peruvian Guano”) as recently discussed and applied the Supreme Court in Tobin v. Minister for Defence [2019] IESC 57 ( “Tobin”). The......
  • Edward Keating v Radio Telefís Éireann and Others
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 9 May 2013
    ...v Revenue Commissioners (Unrep, Supreme Court, 27/3/1996); Compagnie Financiere et Commerciale du Pacificque v Peruvian Guano Company (1882) 11 QBD 55; Sterling-Winthrop Group Ltd v Farbenfabriken Bayer AG [1967] IR 97; Ryanair plc v Aer Rianta cpt [2003] 4 IR 264; Taylor v Clonmel Health......
  • Wallace Smith Trust Company Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Delloitte Haskins & Sells (A Firm) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 July 1996
    ...correct approach: (1) The general principles underlying discovery remain those contained in the judgment of the Court of Appeal in the Peruvian Guano case (supra). I anticipate, however, that these principles and the present practice may have to be re-examined in the near future. The scope ......
  • Ryanair p.l.c. v Aer Rianta c.p.t.
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 2 December 2003
    ... ... -FLYNN V RTE 2000 3 IR 343 COMPAGNIE FINANCIERE V PERUVIAN GUANO CO 1882 11 QB 55 ... in Compagnie Financiere v Peruvian Guano Company [1882] 11 Q.B.D. 55 at 63 (quoted below) ... ...
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  • Table of Cases
    • Canada
    • Irwin Books Civil Litigation
    • 16 June 2010
    ...(Div. Ct.) ............................................ 132 The Compagnie Financière et Commerciale du Pacif‌ique v. Peruvian Guano (1882), 11 Q.B.D. 55 (C.A.) .......................................................................... 172 Thomas W. Sayle Transport Ltd. v. Rivers, [1955] O.W......
  • English fiduciary standards and trust law.
    • United States
    • Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Vol. 32 No. 3, May 1999
    • 1 May 1999
    ...(98.) See generally Hartigan Nominees Pty Ltd. v. Rydge (1992) 29 N.S.W.L.R. 405. (99.) See Compagnie Financiere v. Peruvian Guano Co., 11 Q.B.D. 55, 63 (C.A. (100.) In Hartigan, 29 N.S.W.L.R. 405, the three Court of Appeal judges' views differed. (101.) See Re Hay's Settlement Trusts, [198......
  • Electronic discovery issues: disclosure requirements in Britain, Canada, and Australia.
    • United States
    • Defense Counsel Journal Vol. 65 No. 2, April 1998
    • 1 April 1998
    ...M. Co., [1996] 2 Lloyd's Rep. 374, at 351, per Colman J. Formulations of the test of relevance vary widely. See Compagnie Financiere, (1882) 11 Q.B.D. 55. It has been held in Canada that relevant information need not "be directly on point, and must be produced if it may tend to prove or dis......
  • Open Door Disclosure in Civil Litigation
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The No. 16-3, July 2012
    • 1 July 2012
    ...Woolf, Access to Justice: Interim Report (1995) ch. 21, para. 20.40 Compagnie Financière et Commerciale du Pacifique vPeruvian Guano Co. (1882) 11 QBD 55 at grounds in a given case to doubt whether the disclosure was adequate, which canlead to satellite litigation over disclosure. According......
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